Life and science at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Meanwhile, inside the Photobiology Lab…

Posted by KristenM on August 11th, 2010

Go behind the scenes and into SERC’s photobiology lab. This is where photobiologist Pat Neale spends a great deal of time examining the impact of UV radiation on photosynthesis. In this video you’ll get a look at one experiment that seeks to determine what would happen to the ocean’s phytoplankton if the ozone layer was suddenly destroyed by cosmic radiation.